No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.